Seagate USM Interface

[santilmo]

Kinda curios, can I use the USB 3.0 (USM) cable of Seagate external HDD and plug a regular internal HDD on to it? Will it fit? Will it work? Will it not damage the HDD or USM cable?

Appreciate your inputs.

Thanks!

 

[razel]

Yes. Take a standard USB-SATA adapter, lengthen the plastic on the male SATA plug and add the metal latching clips on the side and that's USM. I love it that Seagate is one of the few companies that don't remove the SATA port off their external drives.

 

[iluvdeal]

Yes. Take a standard USB-SATA adapter, lengthen the plastic on the male SATA plug and add the metal latching clips on the side and that's USM. I love it that Seagate is one of the few companies that don't remove the SATA port off their external drives.

I hate the fact they don't have a esata adapter available for their external drives though. I tried to hack a cheap laptop drive enclosure which has esata and USB interface to plug into the end of the Seagate external drive but the female connector is too short to reach the Seagate SATA plugs.

 

[razel]

I agree that the female connectors in the Seagate USM spec-ed enclosure are very recessed. You have try different SATA cables and power cable to find ones that don't have plastic surrounding the ends that fit. Luckily Seagate does make it easy to take the drive out, but like you, it's be fantastic to just use it outright.

In my situation, I got lucky and my SATA data cables plug in fine, but the power cable was a different story. Luckily I did have a SATA power cable splitter lying around and that I just nail filed the protruding plastic on the connector end until it plugged in.

 

[santilmo]

Thanks for the inputs! I will try it now...

 

[santilmo]

Seems aligned...



and it does fit perfectly...



it just doesn't get detected (most likely due to lack of power)... 2.5" drives should have no problem I guess...